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2013 DVD &amp; Blu-ray round-uphttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/21/2013-dvd-round-up
Lifeforce | Dial M For Murder | Phantom Of The Opera | Mabuse The Gambler | Breaking Bad | Nosferatu | Arrow<p><br /><a href="//www.youtube.com/embed/qej5nlRb9VM?enablejsapi=1&amp;version=3">Reading this on mobile? Click here to view</a></p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/21/2013-dvd-round-up">Continue reading...</a>DVD and video reviewsFilmCultureNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsSat, 21 Dec 2013 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/dec/21/2013-dvd-round-upRexLifeforce. Photograph: RexPhelim O'Neill2013-12-21T06:00:00ZJFK, out this week on DVD &amp; Blu-rayhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/16/jfk-dvd-review
JFK | The Wolverine | Nosferatu | Streets Of Fire | Milius<p>As the 50th anniversary of John F Kennedy's assassination approaches you'll notice that, for such an important event, Hollywood movies on the subject are pretty thin on the ground. Up until the Zac Efron-led Parkland (which deals more with the effects on peripheral characters and is out on Friday), the only other notable example was this sprawling Oliver Stone epic. Plenty of critics have used adjectives such as belligerent, tenacious and (above all) paranoid when describing the film, but it's more than one man's delusional opus. Stone launches into things head on, with a great cast including a relentlessly blank Kevin Costner and far more flamboyant turns from Kevin Bacon, Tommy Lee Jones and Joe Pesci, plus Gary Oldman as Lee Harvey Oswald.</p><p>Don't go into this expecting answers; the movie is more Stone tackling the hatchet job done by the Warren Commission and it's very much Stone's interpretation of the &quot;facts&quot;. Like his recent documentary series Untold History Of The United States, Stone takes a historic moment and finds a way into it which attempts to show the murkier workings of US officialdom. Here he has three-and-a-half dizzying hours to hash out every rumour and, despite the length, it's an energetic drama that shows the truth getting further away with every new theory. Or maybe that's just what they want us to think?</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/16/jfk-dvd-review">Continue reading...</a>DVD and video reviewsFilmCultureOliver StoneNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsMiliusThe WolverineSat, 16 Nov 2013 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/16/jfk-dvd-reviewAllstarKevin Costner in JFK. Photograph: AllstarAllstarKevin Costner in JFK. Photograph: AllstarPhelim O'Neill2013-11-16T06:00:00ZShort Term 12, Philomena, Thor: The Dark World: this week's new filmshttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/02/this-weeks-new-films
Short Term 12 | Philomena | Thor: The Dark World | Milius | Gloria | Nosferatu The Vampyre | Drinking Buddies | Cutie And The Boxer | Child's Pose | The Nun | The Haunting In Connecticut 2: Ghosts Of Georgia | A Nightmare On Elm Stret<p>A film that makes you care about people who care about people, this compact indie doesn't have to look hard for drama in a foster care home, whose young workers need help as much as the damaged teens in their charge. The storylines are a little convenient, but it's an emotional watch, and Larson is outstanding.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/02/this-weeks-new-films">Continue reading...</a>FilmCultureNatalie PortmanJudi DenchSteve CooganWerner HerzogJohnny DeppNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsThor: The Dark WorldThe Haunting of Connecticut 2: The Ghosts of GeorgiaChild's PoseCutie And The BoxerDrinking BuddiesGloriaMiliusNosferatu the VampyrePhilomenaThe NunShort Term 12Sat, 02 Nov 2013 06:00:04 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/02/this-weeks-new-filmsc.Everett Collection/REX/c.Everett Collection/REXShort Term 12. Photograph: c.Everett Collection/REXc.Everett Collection/REX/c.Everett Collection/REXShort Term 12. Photograph: c.Everett Collection/REXSteve Rose2013-11-02T06:00:04ZThe devil's work: gothic films at the BFIhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/26/gothic-films-bfi-devils-work
From Nosferatu to Twilight, gothic films have explored what frightens us&nbsp;–&nbsp;and why we are willing victims of our fear. A few days before Halloween, and as the BFI begins a nationwide season, Michael Newton is seduced by&nbsp;horror, sex and satanism<p>Beyond high castle walls, the wolves howl. The Count intones: &quot;Listen to them! The children of the night! What music they make!&quot; And those words usher you into a faintly ludicrous cosiness, the comfortable darkness of&nbsp;gothic. For gothic properties are&nbsp;altogether snug, as familiar as Halloween costumes – a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jan/04/screen-legends-boris-karloff" title="">Boris Karloff</a> mask, the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/07/classics.sciencefictionfantasyandhorror" title="">Bela Lugosi</a> cape, an Elsa Lanchester wig. So it is that many of us&nbsp;first come to the form through its parodies; I knew <em>Carry On Screaming!</em> by heart before I saw my first Hammer film. And yet, within the homely restfulness, something genuinely disturbing lurks; an authentic dread. And watching these films again, we find behind both the security and the&nbsp;horror something we perhaps did&nbsp;not expect – a visionary poetry motivating it all.</p><p>Gothic is one of Britain's greatest cultural exports, moving quickly to Germany, then Ireland, then America, and then much of the world. The form originated in the 18th-century novels of Horace Walpole and Ann Radcliffe, set far from England in a historically remote, dream version of Catholic Europe. Then came the 19th century's series of gloomy fables: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/maryshelley" title="">Mary Shelley's <em>Frankenstein</em></a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/aug/09/featuresreviews.guardianreview3" title="">James Hogg</a>'s <em>Confessions of a Justified Sinner</em>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/08/my-hero-robert-stevenson-rankin" title="">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>'s <em>The Strange Case of Dr&nbsp;Jekyll and Mr Hyde</em>, Oscar Wilde's <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/jan/25/classics-picture-dorian-gray-wilde" title=""><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em></a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/bram-stoker" title="">Bram Stoker's <em>Dracula</em></a>, and the marvellous ghost stories of Charles Dickens, Sheridan Le Fanu, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/henryjames" title="">Henry James</a> and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/01/collected-ghost-stories-mr-james-review" title="">MR James</a>. Over the&nbsp;last 100 years, gothic film has meant first of all the screening of these&nbsp;archetypal tales, and then the adaptation of their mythic spirit to modern life's still darker rigours.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/26/gothic-films-bfi-devils-work">Continue reading...</a>HorrorBFIFilmCultureNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsSat, 26 Oct 2013 07:30:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/26/gothic-films-bfi-devils-workCourtesy of the BFI<em>The Cabinet of Dr Caligari</em>, 1919. Photograph: Courtesy of the BFICourtesy of the BFI<em>Nosferatu</em>, 1979. Photograph: Courtesy of the BFICourtesy of the BFIDracula Photograph: Courtesy of the BFICourtesy of the BFIDracula Photograph: Courtesy of the BFIMichael Newton2013-10-26T07:30:00ZNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror – reviewhttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/24/nosferatu-eview
FW Murnau's unauthorised 1922 adaptation of Dracula inspired countless thriller storytellers after him, including Hitchcock<p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/fw-murnau" title="">FW Murnau</a>'s black-and-white silent vampire movie from 1922 is now revived nationally as part of the <a href="http://www.bfi.org.uk/gothic" title="">BFI Southbank Gothic season</a>. This romantic fantasia of evil helped invent a whole vocabulary of thriller storytelling; Hitchcock put it to use for the rest of his life in tales of superficially respectable men who were predatory killers. The lunatic in his cell in Nosferatu, fanatically noticing insects, eventually morphed into <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/movie/34630/psycho" title="">Anthony Perkins in Psycho</a>.</p><p>Murnau shifted the geographical centre of gravity east in his unauthorised adaptation of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/culture/gallery/2012/dec/15/bram-stoker-dracula-in-pictures" title="">Bram Stoker's Dracula</a>: now it is Germany, not England, where the sinister Count Orlok, that strange fanged sprite played by Max Schreck, aspires to live. Having been quarantined for so long in the trackless Translyvanian forests, he has now made a satanic decision to spread his malaise into the rational, scientific, bourgeois Europe of the 19th century. The forces of good can hold on to one hope: he can be killed by the sunrise (and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2011/nov/16/my-favourite-film-sunrise" title="">Sunrise</a> was the title of Murnau's humanist masterpiece released in 1927 – the polar opposite of this film). I can never see the eerie shots of the count's ruined German house without thinking of newsreels of 1945 Berlin. There is pure expressionist inspiration in Murnau's juxtaposition of the malign wolves and the terrified old women: a poetry of fear.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/24/nosferatu-eview">Continue reading...</a>Nosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsFW MurnauHorrorFilm adaptationsWorld cinemaFilmCultureDramaThu, 24 Oct 2013 22:05:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/24/nosferatu-eviewPRRomantic fantasia of evil … Max Schreck in FW Murnau's Nosferatu.PRRomantic fantasia of evil … Max Schreck in FW Murnau's Nosferatu.Peter Bradshaw2013-10-24T22:05:00ZWhy you should go to the BFI Gothic film season - videohttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/oct/24/why-you-should-go-bfi-gothic-film-season-video
As the nights are setting in, Xan Brooks suggests some haunting entertainment for the cold winter months ahead, in the shape of BFI Southbank's Gothic film season. Among the featured movies are early classics such as Nosferatu and Bride of Frankenstein, along with 21st-century releases like Swedish horror Let the Right One In and even the Simon Pegg zombie comedy, Shaun of the Dead. More details at <a href="https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=gothic">bfi.org.uk</a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/oct/24/why-you-should-go-bfi-gothic-film-season-video">Continue reading...</a>HorrorBFIFilmCultureNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsLet the Right One InThu, 24 Oct 2013 06:00:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2013/oct/24/why-you-should-go-bfi-gothic-film-season-videoguardian.co.uk/guardian.co.ukStill from the film, The Wicker Man Photograph: guardian.co.ukXan Brooks2013-10-24T06:00:00ZFilm quiz: Vampireshttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/quiz/2013/oct/22/film-quiz-vampires
Nosferatu, the 1920s horror classic, is rereleased this Friday. To mark the occasion, we'd like to know how well-versed are you when it comes to on-screen vampires. Here's 10 questions to test your knowledge of cinema's best bat-bothering blood-suckers <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/quiz/2013/oct/22/film-quiz-vampires">Continue reading...</a>FilmCultureHorrorNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsTue, 22 Oct 2013 12:25:25 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/quiz/2013/oct/22/film-quiz-vampiresPublic DomainDracula.Guardian Staff2013-10-22T12:25:25ZTop 10 horror movieshttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/14/top-10-horror-movies
Time to bring the fear - from Nosferatu to The Shining, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics have picked as the scariest films ever made<br /><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/07/top-10-romantic-movies">• Top 10 romantic movies</a><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/10/top-10-action-movies">• Top 10 action movies</a><br /><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/11/top-10-comedy-movies">• Top 10 comedy movies</a><p>Horror crashes through boundaries and challenges the prohibitions of taste and thinkability in a way few other genres can match. Classics of the genre were produced in cinema's very earliest days – the vampire nightmare Nosferatu and The Cabinet of Dr Caligari from the world of German Expressionism.</p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/14/top-10-horror-movies">Continue reading...</a>HorrorFilmMichael PowellFilm criticismWorld cinemaStephen KingFilm adaptationsFW MurnauWilliam FriedkinStanley KubrickJack NicholsonNicolas RoegRoman PolanskiMia FarrowJohn CassavetesAlfred HitchcockCultureBooksNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsThe ShiningMon, 14 Oct 2013 16:49:21 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/oct/14/top-10-horror-moviesPRRonald Grant Archivec.Magnolia/Everett/Rex Feature/c.Magnolia/Everett / Rex FeatureRonald Grant ArchiveAllstar/Cinetext Collection/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext CollectionSportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext/Warner Bros/Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext/Warner BrosThe Ronald Grant ArchiveMoviestore collection Ltd / Alam/AlamyCine Text/AllstarAllstar/CinetextAllstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS/Allstar/Cinetext/Warner BrosCome on Jack, call that trying? ... The Shining. Photograph: Allstar/CinetextAllstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROS/Allstar/Cinetext/Warner BrosViolent past … The Shining.
Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/WARNER BROSGuardian Staff2013-10-14T16:49:21ZNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror: No 7 best horror film of all timehttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/nosferatu-symphony-horror-murnau
FW Murnau, 1922<p>Sex and death, those two great mainstays of the horror genre, have rarely been as poetically evoked as in&nbsp;FW Murnau's silent masterpiece. If&nbsp;Nosferatu wasn't quite the first vampire movie, it was the first adaptation of Dracula, albeit an unofficial one; Bram Stoker's estate sued&nbsp;the producers and all copies of the&nbsp;film were ordered&nbsp;to be destroyed.</p><p>Fortunately for the history of cinema it was an order that could not be enforced in Germany. The film follows the story of Dracula closely, though names have been changed. The Dracula character, Graf Orlok, was played by Max Schreck as a hideous walking corpse with a bald head, pointy teeth and long fingernails; Jonathan Harker becomes Thomas Hutter, Mina Harker is Ellen, Renfield is Knock and Van Helsing becomes Professor Bulwer. </p> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/nosferatu-symphony-horror-murnau">Continue reading...</a>HorrorFW MurnauFilmCultureNosferatu: A Symphony of HorrorsFri, 22 Oct 2010 10:48:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/22/nosferatu-symphony-horror-murnauEureka Films/Public DomainNosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens). Courtesy Eureka Films Photograph: Eureka FilmsEureka Films/Public DomainNosferatu.
Courtesy Eureka Films Photograph: Eureka FilmsAnne Billson2010-10-22T10:48:00Z